Law Level of the Imperium

[Dragoner]

Sweet, don't mind if I steal those for my campaign? It is always good to have competition.

 

[samuelvss]

CT XBoats have a Model/4 and (if I've read the deck plans correctly) at least 5 Dtons of extra data storage. I would expect that over the years the Xboat service has been operating, this has been found to be the 'normal traffic plus a bit of overhead' space required. If more data needs to be sent then it waits for the next X-boat.
It's like Usenet, except that it uses spaceships instead of wires.
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Yes, the X-boats have a lot of storage, but how much of that gets devoted to the 103 version of the same news story is another matter, particularly if that news story is then "pushed" to the waiting Model/1's of the subscribers, is another story. At SOME point, bandwidth is a problem, if we're talking about everything written in the Imperium in a week (albeit which week gets staggered over years). Planet A gets all the news from Planet B from last week, Planet C, from two weeks ago, Planet D, from three weeks ago, not to mention all the stuff from off the routes that trickles in, all in one transmission; at some point, there must be a filter, was my main point, and it would probably be in the nature of having only one of each story in a given run.

 

[Whipsnade]

But, there is also the issue of the nature of the source - official, or not. Ex: Free traders visiting class C and below starports may not bother with any verification of the data they get from a system. Official data from TAS and Scout Surveys is generally going to be very dated in areas where it is most needed.

That's an extremely important point and one the proponents, either consciously or subconsciously, of the Imperium being nothing but a 57th Century European Union have trouble gasping. Your Real World example of US Interstate signs and the earlier example of missing road data on GPS devices are almost incomprehensible to people who live in densely and long time settled regions with a bureaucracy which is so intrusive that everyday foodstuffs need to be certified as to whether they're "traditional" or not.

In the Third Imperium with it's canonical laissez faire modus operandi and thinly stretched assets, system, port, and other data is going to more accurate and more often updated along more traveled routes. Money and time are going to be directed where money is made and time matters.

Data concerning Regina, Mora, and Glisten is going to updated often, accurate as the process allows, and disseminated widely. Data concerning Prinx, Dekalb, or Froin could very well be years out of date.

Why does Regina get the attention while Froin gets ignored? Because no one of consequence visits Froin and those who do visit Froin already know what they need to know about that system.

And Froin is where the players are more likely need to be!

 

[DangerousThing]

Nice.

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I *do* like that.